Canadian, Stone Mason, Ex-Pat living in the UK.
Well, I’m glad that archeologists aren’t as dim as they were made out to be!
Fair, we get taught a bit of American history at school in Canada, but not loads, and I usually just spaced out during those bits.
Wasn’t Nixon so far gone with Alzheimer’s that they wouldn’t have been able to get him certified as of sound mind?
Nice! Thanks for the tidbit of knowledge!
Fuck, I hope so!
It’s a bit more complicated than what you’re saying, but sure.
France has a Head of State, the President, and a Head of Government, the Prime Minister. The PM is appointed by the President. The President is the head of the Executive branch, and the PM is the head of the Legislative branch.
From the Wiki:
The political system of France consists of an executive branch, a legislative branch, and a judicial branch. Executive power is exercised by the president of the republic and the Government. The Government consists of the prime minister and ministers. The prime minister is appointed by the president, and is responsible to Parliament. The government, including the prime minister, can be revoked by the National Assembly, the lower house of Parliament, through a motion of no-confidence; this ensures that the prime minister is practically always supported by a majority in the lower house (which, on most topics, has prominence over the upper house).
Exactly, it’s just an “evolution” of the whole White Saviour bit they love so much.
On the flip side, there was an article on the BBC website around a year ago. Basically the article was explaining how archeologists had no idea how the ancient folk made Stonehenge so accurately plumb and level, and how they’ve been experimenting for aaaages trying to figure it out…
Now, I’m a stonemason. And I can tell you exactly what they probably did, but the Big Brain people don’t like to ask people who work trades. (Or maybe they are just asking the wrong ones)
If you have figured out rope or string, and you have access to wood and a few stones, then it’s incredibly easy to level off an area, to make an accurate circle, and to make the tops of all the standing stones level and the uprights plumb.
A basic plumb-bob is incredibly easy to make, in this instance we would use as straight a piece of wood as we can find, a length of rope tied to the middle of it, with a stone tied to the other end. For the uprights, get straight logs as long as each stone going into the ground. Now we have our standing stone analogues, and a plumb-bob. Dig the holes for the uprights, plop the logs down in the hole, if the plumb-bob isn’t pointing straight down between the two logs, one side has to go down.
There, mystery solved. Thanks for coming to my TEDtalk.
HOW DARE YOU!!
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That said… you’re probably right…
I’d say it’s more that we have a short memory as a society, and that they never really bothered to hide it, we’re just noticing it again.
I can do that:
Some who work forces
Also jerk horses.
FTFY
Look, if it’s gonna be a fascist dictatorship anyway…
(To be clear, I’m not saying if the Dems win that’s what it’ll be.)
They probably would if they weren’t being payed by lobby groups not to. Or at least one would hope they would.
Did we all forget about the study from Mozilla on vehicle data collection?
The fact of the matter is that every single new connected product is collecting data on anyone who uses it. Once the data is collected, it’s sold. Once it’s on the market, that data is used by every country. China will eventually get data on US drivers regardless of what make they drive, the US government just wants first dibs.
I’m not one of those people who think that China and Russia are some kind of utopic ideal we should all be working towards. The US government is also not a shining beacon of ethics.
I usually use:
Email - nope@nah.com
Name - Nah Nope
Gender - prefer not to say
DoB - same as you
Phone - just random digits, or if I’m feeling spicy the phone number of a guy I used to be buddies with who fucked me over
Income - never been asked for this yet, probably go with something outlandish…like 1
ghostarchive.org
Just paste the URL in.
Oh, it’s gonna be way more than that if inflation keeps on the way it has been.
This strikes a chord…this was basically me when I moved to Scotland. I’m a bit over 2 years in, and there’s still times I have to ask people to repeat themselves…